By iraszl on

Hi!
I want to make an online gallery. I will list the main features and please tell me if it's feasible withing Drupal or if a Drupal extension available.
Thanks a lot!

1. Members should be able to upload artworks in a certain subject and and fill out predefined fields, like "material".
2. There should be a possiblity to upload a series of images, not just one. But this series should belong to one message, not several.
3. These images (or series of images) automatically appear in chronological order (newest on top) on the main page resized to medium size to fit the layout.
4. Users should be able to comment and rate the images.
5. Users should be able to search the pictures based on the fields, like show me all with "material=wood".

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Dublin Drupaller commented

Hi Ira.

I'm a newbie at Drupal and use the image.module for doing most of what you are looking to do. There probably is a way to hack/modify that to increase the functionality, but, I haven't got a clue how to do that.

Using it straight out of the box, using IMAGE.module allows users to have their personal image galleries...where they can upload their own image(s) into their own personal photo gallery..and users will be able to add a comment.

Guessing you can play with the categories/taxonomy thing to setup special classifications like material=wood etc.

Hope that helps. As a by the way..I notice one or two drupal users on here use a third party open source tool called "gallery" avilable at: http://gallery.menalto.com/

Hope that helps

Jason

Currently in Switzerland working as an Application Developer with UBS Investment Bank...using Drupal 7 and lots of swiss chocolate

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sepeck commented

Note: If I recall, The personal image gallery is not accessable to anonymous users by design. You can set user access permissions to post to the main gallery though.

-Steven Peck
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iraszl commented

i don't mind if only registered users can upload. that's ok. i'll dig up the image.module.

http://creativebits.raszl.net

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sepeck commented

The image module has two types of galleries. One is the general site gallery and you can set permissions on it to allow anonymous viewing with no problem. The other is a 'personal' gallery that you can activate for users. That is the one I was refering to, I do not believe that other users or anonymous users can see that one.

I could be wrong too, so you need to test.

-sp

-Steven Peck
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Test site, always start with a test site.
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iraszl commented

Thanks!

I have a local Mac OS X installation of Drupal, and I read that this module requires ImageMagick, GD or ImLib2. I know OS X has sips (which is part of UNIX and seems not to be supported), but I'm don't think the other three are available for OS X.

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sepeck commented

GD2 is part of php and i know they have it for *nix type systems (I run on IIS). Image Magick is also available for *nix type systems as well.

-Steven Peck
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Test site, always start with a test site.
Drupal Best Practices Guide

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iraszl commented

i see. thanks! i will dig a bit more. it's a bit more complicated than i thought. :( but i guess if that what it takes i have no choice, but learn. :)

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heather commented

I'm trying to sort this out as well. I would like personal galleries, and also allow everyone to see...

I found this: http://drupal.org/node/12647 from bhertz

""Edit image.module the function image_perm to look like this

function image_perm() {
return array("has personal image gallery", "manipulate images", "create images", "administer images", "access images");
}

After doing that, you can edit image access permissions for the various user roles.""

More about this patch of adding 'access images' to the permission function here:
http://drupal.org/node/12082

I have yet to try this, and still searching to find answers to a host of questions.